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Amnirana albolabris (Hallowell, 1856)
Rana albolabris Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 153. Syntypes: ANSP (4 specimens), by original designation; lost according to Perret, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species WorldJ: 479. Type locality: "West Africa"; restricted to "Gabon" by Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 843; Jongsma, Barej, Barratt, Burger, Conradie, Ernst, Greenbaum, Hirschfeld, Leaché, Penner, Portik, Zassi-Boulou, Rödel, and Blackburn, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 120: 281, argued on the basis of collection records that the correct type locality is "north of the Ogooué River in Gabon".
Hylarana albolabris — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 73.
Limnodytes albolabris — Duméril, 1859, Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 10: 226; Peters, 1876, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876: 120; Vaillant, 1884, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 8: 171.
Hylorana albolabris — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 112.
Rana albilabris — Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 323. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Rana albolabris — Werner, 1908 "1907", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 116: 1897.
Rana (Hylorana) albolabris — Chabanaud, 1921, Bull. Com. Études Hist. Scient. Afr. Occid. Franç., 1921: 450.
Rana albolabris albolabris — Mertens, 1938, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 442: 13; Loveridge, 1938, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 17: 71.
Rana (Hylarana) albolabris albolabris — De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 33: 50; Perret and Mertens, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 566.
Hylarana albolabris albolabris — Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 134 (15 of preprint); De Witte, 1952, Result. Sci., Explor. Hydrobiol. Lac Tanganyika (1946–47), 3: 7; Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 74; Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 351.
Hylarana acutirostris longipes Perret, 1960, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 83: 97. Holotype: MHNG 986.24, by original designation. Type locality: "l'Ouest camerounais (Bamiléké) . .. . Bangwa". Secondary homonym in Rana of Hylorana longipes Fischer, 1885, Rana fusca var. longipes Müller, 1885, and Rana longipes Hallowell, 1859. Synonymy by Jongsma, Barej, Barratt, Burger, Conradie, Ernst, Greenbaum, Hirschfeld, Leaché, Penner, Portik, Zassi-Boulou, Rödel, and Blackburn, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 120: 281.
Hylarana parkeriana longipes — Perret, 1961, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 84: 138; Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 350.
Hylarana longipes — Joger, 1982, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 33: 318; Schätti, Perret, and Mariaux, 2002, Cat. Comm. Types Amph. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve, Vers. 4.0 (Jan. 2002): 8.
Rana longipes — Perret, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 501.
Rana (Hylarana) longipes — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.
Rana (Amnirana) longipes — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.
Rana (Amnirana) albolabris — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.
Amnirana albolabris — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266, by implication; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 187.
Amnirana longipes — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266, by implication; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.
Hydrophylax longipes — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 368.
Hydrophylax albolabris — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 368.
Hylarana albolabris — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423.
Hylarana longipes — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication.
Amnirana longipes — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 187 (provisional placement).
English Names
White-lipped Frog (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 114; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106; Lötters, Wagner, Bwong, Schick, Malonza, Muchai, Wasonga, and Veith, 2007, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Kakamega Forest: 18).
Forest White-lipped Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 255).
Bamileke Plateau Frog (Amnirana longipes [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Long-footed White-lipped Frog (Amnirana longipes [no longer recognized]): Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 392).
West African White-lipped Frog (Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbass, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène, and Rödel, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15: 96, with reference to the unnamed western lineage of this nominal species).
Distribution
Forested West Africa west from Sierra Leone, southern Guinea, Ivory Coast and southern Burkina Faso (see comment); to coastal eastern Nigeria, southern 2/3s of Cameroon south through Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Rep. Congo and Dem. Rep. Congo south to northern Angola; east through southern Central African Republic and central and northern Dem. Rep. Congo to Uganda, southwestern Kenya; expected in Rwanda, and Burundi. See comment.
Comment
In the Rana (Amnirana) albolabris group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 846–850, reviewed the species as Hylarana albolabris. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 134–135, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Frétey and Blanc, 2002 "2001", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 385, reported this species from Gabon. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 255–256, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 85–86, provided accounts (as Amnirana albolabris). Rödel, Brede, Schiefenhövel, Penner, Sinsin, and Nago, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 231–238, reported this species from the Lokoli Forest of southern Benin. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes (as Amnirana albolabris) on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 29–30, provided records for Nigeria. Jackson and Blackburn, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 149–164, provided a record for Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Rep. Congo. Lötters, Wagner, Bwong, Schick, Malonza, Muchai, Wasonga, and Veith, 2007, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Kakamega Forest: 18–20, provided an account. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 361–362, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Reviewed as Hylarana longipes by Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 850–853. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Amnirana longipes) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 475. Nagy, Chifundera, Collet, and Gvoždík, 2013, Herpetol. Notes, 6: 413–419, provided a record from Bas-Congo, southwestern Dem. Rep. Congo. Jongsma, Barej, Barratt, Burger, Conradie, Ernst, Greenbaum, Hirschfeld, Leaché, Penner, Portik, Zassi-Boulou, Rödel, and Blackburn, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 120: 274–285, discussed the molecular phylogenetics of the nominal species, suggesting that the population west of Benin constitutes an unnamed species, more closely related to Amnirana fonensis, and that nominal Amnirana albolabris is composed of up to four species, although the authors chose to wait on additional evidence before applying available names. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 158, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 40, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 66). Rödel and Glos, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 27, reported Amnirana 'albolabris-West" from the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area in southeastern Liberia and the Foya Proposed Protected Area in western Liberia, and commented on identification and habitat preference. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 48, provided a photograph, range map, and brief characterization. Mali, Banda, Chifundera, Badjedjea, Sebe, Lokasola, Ewango, Tungaluna, and Akaibe, 2019, Am. J. Zool., 2: 38–43, reported the species from the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo, but this identification requires confirmation. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 390–391, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for nominal Amnirana albolabris, but also for Amnirana sp. 'albolabris West' (their West African White-lipped Frog) for the west-of-Benin population. On pp. 392–393, these authors provided an account for nominal Amnirana longipes. See brief account, photographs, and range map for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230, who noted that Equatorial Guinea contained at least two lineages under this name. Ernst, Lautenschläger, Branquima, and Hölting, 2020, Zoosyst. Evol., 96: 256, noted the presence in Uigé Province, northwestern Angola. Ayoro, Segniagbeto, Hema, Penner, Oueda, Dubois, Rödel, Kabré, and Ohler, 2020, Zoosystema, 42: 547–582, discussed records, identification, and habitat in Burkina Faso. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbass, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène, and Rödel, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15: 71–107, commented on conservation status, systematics identification, range, and habitat on the Ivory Coast side of Mont Nimba, noting that an unnamed lineage is found in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Kako-Wanzalire, Mongo, Ilonga, Mapoli, Mbumba, Neema, Tungaluna, Itoka, and Bogaert, 2021, Tropicultura, 39 (1: 1709): 1–19, briefly discussed habitat preference in north-central and northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Oussou, Assemian, Kouadio, and Tiédoué , 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16 (1, e298): 1–13, noted an unnamed species, similar to Amnirana albolabris, in Tai National Park, southwestern Ivory Coast. Badjedjea, Masudi, Akaibe, and Gvoždík, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16 (1: e301): 62, commented on a population of Amnirana cf. albolabris from the Kokolopori Bonobo Nature Reserve, Tshuapa Province, Dem. Rep. Congo.
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